'Selfishness' in the Bible
The Master however said to him, "Here we see how you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup or plate, while your secret hearts are full of greed and selfishness.
I am afraid that I may come and somehow find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. Perhaps there will be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.
For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through love serve and seek the best for one another.
idolatry, sorcery, hostility, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions [that promote heresies],
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.